Taylor Swift announces album release date

Taylor Swift has announced that her new album Speak Now will be released on October 25.

During a uStream chat with fans on Tuesday, the singer revealed that she is proud of the record and is excited to share it with the world.

"It's called Speak Now, and that pertains to the album as a concept and as an entire theme of the record more than I can even tell you," she said.

"I've been working on it for two years, so ever since we put out Fearless, I've been writing for this record and sort of conceptualizing it and putting it together in my head and sort of figuring out what I want it to be. I like to take a lot of time in between albums to work up the next one and see what it is."

She added that the album is full of songs about things she has experienced since the release of Fearless.

"For me, I write everything that I live, so you got to give yourself a little bit of time to live a lot of things so you can write about a lot of things, and my only option is to write about what I've been through and what I've lived, so thankfully, in the past two years, I've experienced a lot of things that I've been dying to write about and a lot of things that I wanted to say in the moment that I didn't," she explained.

Swift recently insisted that she would not take a break between her last tour and the release of Speak Now.